Dr. Ritesh Kumar is working as an Assistant Professor at IIT Roorkee and is the head of the Experimental & Computational Geodynamics Laboratory (ECGL).
His research interests include Finite element method and computational soil dynamics, Smooth particle hydrodynamics, Data assimilation, Dynamic soil properties, and liquefaction analysis, Dynamic soil-structure interaction, Physical and numerical modeling of liquefaction-related problems, Reliability-based analysis/design in geotechnical engineering